One lucky bettor nailed the $1.00 Jai-5 Jackpot wager at Magic City Jai-Alai in Miami for a cool $12,426 at Monday’s pelota performance on Monday, 3/28. This was the second largest payoff in Magic City history since the challenging Jackpot wager began in 2019. The Jackpot had swelled to $9,690.80 going into today’s performance and had gone 15-performances without a single winner since last won on February 20th for $2,000.
The winning numbers were 7-1-2-6-8 for games 3-7. Ikeda, a crowd favorite and strong mid-games singles player, won both game 3 and game 4 singles to kick-off the sequence. Game 5 doubles game was won by the team of Juice-Manu from the lucrative 2-post. Game 6 late game singles, a feature game with the strongest players, was won by Douglas in a perfect runout style from post 6. The game 7 finale, another doubles game, was also a perfect game runout by the team of Anderluck-Nicolas from post 8. Anderluck was substituting for Diaz in the front court who was scratched for today’s games.
All posts were covered for a 5 of 5 winner except for post 7, the team of Bueno-Julen, which would have paid $71.90 for a 4 of 5 consolation payoff had they won the game. Posts 1 and 4 had multiple tickets with 5 of 5 winners had they won. The Jackpot Jai-5 would have carried-over to Tuesday’s performance had the 1,4 or 7 post won the game. The Jai-5 Jackpot wager rules dictate there must be a SINGLE winning ticket with 5 of 5 winners for the entire jackpot to be paid out. Had post 1 won the game it would have paid a consolation payout of $683.80 to 2-different winners while post 4 would have paid a consolation payout of $455.80 to 3-different 5 of 5 winners. Posts 2,3,5,6,8 were all single winning ticket will-pays for $12,426 each. A total of $3,419 was wagered on the Jai-5 for Monday’s performance.
The Jackpot wager starts out at $0 for Tuesday’s pelota performance at 1:30-pm EST, however, it has a minimum guaranteed Jackpot of $2,000 should there be a single winning ticket with 5 of 5.
SayHiLi.com website shows a complete listing of all the BIG PAYOFFS during the history of Magic City Jai-Alai for both the Jai-5 and the Mighty Ocho Jackpot wagers.
Steve M.